Robert Bosch LLC is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a new energy research initiative to explore new materials and concepts for energy conversion and energy storage systems. Specifically, Bosch has become a Sustaining Member of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) with the commitment of five million dollars over five years. Bosch’s […]
Promoting Manufacturing Careers to Students
With half the nation’s 14 million manufacturing workers nearing retirement, 90 percent of America’s manufacturers say they are struggling to find qualified workers. The jobs going overseas are largely the low-skill assembly line kind. Those that remain are high-skilled, high-tech and high-paying. Unfortunately, there is a perception that manufacturing jobs in the U.S. are dead-end […]
STEPS Program Fosters Manufacturing, Engineering Aspirations in Female Students
The STEPS program, founded at the University of Wisconsin at Stout, fosters manufacturing and engineering aspiration in female students. STEPS stands for Science, Technology, and Engineering Preview summer camp. For four weeks each summer, 160 12-year-old girls spend five days in groups of 40 learning about electronics, physics, motors, metal casting and bending, plastics thermo-forming […]
Automation Advances Spark Factory-Floor Efficiency
A quiet but unmistakable evolution is sweeping through today’s plants and factories. Prodded by increasing computing power, automation steadily transforms our manufacturing, process, and assembly plants. Fully programmable-precision robots are replacing human operators, often performing tasks faster, more accurately, and more reliably. PCs are populating the factory floor. Wireless communications, along with industrial-grade Ether-nets, continues […]
Skilled Worker Shortage in Manufacturing
More leading manufacturing executives today believe the lack of skilled labor and management skills in the work force—not current oil prices or the weak U.S. dollar—most hurts the growth of America’s economy. In a new poll conducted by sponsors of the FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show, 27 percent of the executives cited the lack […]
Computer Simulation for Manufacturers Focus of Computer-Aided Engineering Conference
As manufacturers and brand developers work to bring new, more complex products to the market faster to meet rapidly shifting global consumer demands—and concurrently to reduce product-development time—computer simulation, or virtual prototyping, continues to gain importance with business executives to cost-effectively meet these divergent design challenges. The role of computer simulation in today’s businesses will […]
Mechatronics Engineering Technology Leads to Careers in High Speed Packaging
Adapting to the growing need for trained engineering technologists within the high speed packaging industry is the emphasis of a redirected Purdue University Calumet bachelor’s degree program in Mechatronics Engineering Technology. The program, offered through Purdue Calumet’s School of Technology, combines mechanical design, manufacturing, and electrical control within a foundational context of packaging […]
University Offers Lean Manufacturing Certificate Program
The Life Cycle Institute, the learning source for optimizing asset reliability and performance, has partnered with the University of Tennessee Center for Executive Education to launch Establishing Reliability Excellence for Lean Implementation (Lean Reliability) – a certificate program taught by practitioners focused on establishing foundational reliability in support of Lean manufacturing. According to […]